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With the beautiful Hussain Sagar Lake in the heart of the city, Hyderabad has endless boating options. Bhagmati and Bhageerathi, the two destinations for picnics, get-togethers, and meetings have luxury cruises to leave you with an exotic experience of boating on the lake of Hussain Sagar. There is also a bar cum restaurant at the Bhagmati, where you can delve into some gastronomical delights of the Hyderabadi cuisine. Besides this the other facilities that have lately been included are parasailing, speed boats, motor boats, and a launch with an accommodation option of 48 persons to explore the Riviera even better. The gorgeous and placid lake of Hussain Sagar is located at the heart of the city of Hyderabad. It composes a gamut between the age old past and the modern world. Better known as Tank Bund, in the city of Hyderabad, the Hussein Sagar Lake sets to create a mesmerizing natural beauty. Numerous parks, recreation spots, temples, statuaries and many other tourists' attractions have developed along the banks of the lake. This has led to rapid growth of popularity of boating in Hyderabad. The Hussain Sagar Lake sprawls over an area of 24 kilometers and was built by Hazrat Hussain Shah Wali. The lake was built by the famous builder Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah to meet the irrigational need the the city of Hyderabad in 1562 on a tributary of the Musi River. The Hyderabad Boat Club flanks the south of the Lake, while the north is flanked by Secunderabad Sailing Club making the Hussein Sagar Lake an important venue for the annual sailing events. You can catch several rowing boats and yachts navigating through the lake. There is a 350 ton monolith statue of Buddha, which is regarded as the largest statue of Buddha in the world, in the middle of the lake. This is a very popular destination that could only be reached by boats.
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